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Peek behind the Instagram filters and Photoshop effects for an authentic, laugh-out-loud look at author/blogger Heather Thompson Day’s journey into the arms of husband Seth Michael Day, the cutest boy in her sixth-grade class. Christian women often embrace an unrealistic, fairy-tale view of dating, relationships, marriage, and parenting. Proverbs 31, anyone?

With tips and tools for both students and parents, this book is designed to help secure a bright future in college sports. You need the advice in this book, from creating an athletic resume to evaluating scholarship offers, you’ll learn the ins and outs of this complex process.

The Teen Toolbox for Tackling Anxiety provides teens with exactly what they need to manage the stress of anxiety in a unique and engaging way. It has tons of useful information to enable them to take back control in their lives for good. This essential guide provides nine powerful tactics to give teens the tools to cope with their mental health problems. It will empower them with the knowledge they need to reset their anxious brain and change the way they think, feel, and behave. An invaluable resource for teens to access independently to boost their knowledge, confidence, and success!

Empty Nest is hard enough to go through, but when there is no one who understands what you feel, it is harder. When everyone around you is either negative about the experience or tells you that you are being silly or you should be happy, they don't understand. It is especially hard when no one has been "Mom," but you. Great Grandma understands. This book was created out of a need for an older, more experienced woman to share her viewpoint of this pivotal transition in life.

Knowing the three types that improve life, fuel learning, and even allow the brain to wire new neurons. It is like magic. Poor attention, damage from injury, bad moods, anxiety, and trouble in school could vanish with some exercise, fun play, or balance activities and obstacle courses.

The strategies in this audiobook explain and alleviate effects of stress on our mind and body while improving productivity, self-reported happiness, and achievement! You’ll leave with 30 research-based behaviors shown to increase your brain’s ability to learn, be successful, and improve health.

Love them or hate them, watching movies and playing games allow us to learn at light-speed. Thismeans that using them as a tool in teaching is a no-brainer. Every day, we see how this medium dictates what we believe and how it influences behavior, for better and for worse. Our future is dependent upon the “viewers” learning how to verify accuracy, and the future of learning depends upon the willingness to harness what engages.

The tragedy is that homework has caused good parents to force children to stop activities that are evidence-based, like time playing, outside, time talking, interacting with people, and a bedtime. The academic benefits come when we eat dinner with the family, maintain a bedtime routine, engage in music training, or read a book by choice.

Music not only excites and electrifies, but it produces and orchestrates neural functionality. Just listening synchronizes brainwaves, the nervous system, pain tolerance, mood, and your immune system. Musicians have sophisticated neural networks like tracks of the railroads. It grows more mass in the brain (especially the hippocampus), boosts cognition, linguistics, spatial rotation, social interaction, and empathy.

For new Christians and longtime followers alike, it can be daunting to even think about diving into the Bible, but it shouldn't. In this book, you hold a three-part guide that will help you on your journey to discovering the depth of love, knowledge, and wisdom that lies within the word of God.

A decades-old disappearance. A woman determined to uncover the truth. A family’s past buried deep in the shadows of the Vietnam War. In Echoes from a Missing Generation, a gripping split-time novel, the mysteries of the past ripple into the present—where truth, love, and legacy collide. In 1970, Bristol Danes vanishes on the day he’s called up for the Vietnam War draft. His young wife, Clara, is left behind in the small Oregon town of Oscar’s Creek with unanswered questions and a lifetime of silence. Rumors swirl, secrets grow, and a recent local murder casts a long, chilling shadow.

Dr. Wendolyn Slattery's memoir, The Edge of the Unseen World, is a profound and moving testament to resilience, faith, and the power of purpose. Her journey - from a young girl discouraged from dreaming of a medical career to a pioneering professional in both the tech and medical fields is both inspiring and deeply human. This book seamlessly blends personal memoir with spiritual introspection, delivering a compelling narrative that will resonate with listeners from all walks of life.